By: Chris Stern What Happened to Eden? Imagine a world filled with free food, perfect health and good natured, law abiding citizens. No laws are needed because the human inhabitants of this world lack the scourge of inappropriate desire. Lacking inappropriate desire, people exhibit unselfish, indiscriminate virtue. Such […]
More and more of us are doing what we can to support a sustainable lifestyle. We recycle, bring our own shopping bags, buy local and organic as much as possible, you know the drill. But if you’ve ever felt a little overwhelmed when you go shopping, especially for […]
By Susan Fries “For children, nature comes in many forms. Unlike television, nature does not steal time; it amplifies it. It (nature) serves as a blank slate upon which a child draws and reinterprets the culture’s fantasies.” This begins Richard Louv’s appeal in “Last Child in the Woods” […]
A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes, by David Tanis, Artisan, 2008 A Book Review Sublime. A recipe with two ingredients; garden, sun ripened, heirloom tomatoes and sea salt, it’s utterly flawless. The collection of menus in A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes communicates the […]
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle- A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver A BOOK REVIEW Barbara Kingsolver is an undeniable master of storytelling. For the first time she indulges us with anonfiction story and she doesn’t disappoint. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle includes a year’s worth of trials and […]
